During the salvage and removal of the wrecks from West Loch, the U.S. Navy found remains of a Japanese midget submarine.

Pearl Harbor attack survivor and historical researcher, Ray Emory, also disputes the official death toll; he believes 132 men died at West Loch.

Researchers posited that it had penetrated the harbor to attack Battleship Row, before escaping into West Loch and being scuttled by the two-man crew.

The two ships lay in the far corner of West Loch, a narrow inlet of the harbor.

The tug obligingly turned out of the main channel and came chugging into West Loch.

A written report is desired explaining grounding of Caine this morning in West Loch.

"Sir-pardon me-did the change have anything to do with our grounding in West Loch yesterday?"

On 23 May, she returned to West Loch and extinguished the blaze in the hulk of LST-480.

It is on the western shore of the West Loch of Pearl Harbor.

Pyro was moored at West Loch in Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked 7 December 1941.